Former San Jose Sharks forward Evander Kane will appear in his first NHL game of the season on Saturday, after Kane’s agent officially announced that his client had signed with the Edmonton Oilers. 
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&#8220;With Edmonton, look, you&#8217;ve got two of the best players in the world here (Connor McDavid, Leon Draisaitl),&#8221; Kane <a href="https://www.nhl.com/news/oilers-agree-to-contract-with-evander-kane/c-330263356">said</a> Friday. &#8220;I don&#8217;t know if there&#8217;s a winger in the League that would say they don&#8217;t fit well on either one of those guys&#8217; lines. So for me, it would be an easy fit either way and again, that&#8217;s part of what makes it so exciting.&#8221;
On Thursday, the NHL concluded its investigation of Kane’s cross-border travel during the Holiday Period, a violation of AHL [American Hockey League] rules. Kane was sent down to the Sharks AHL affiliate in November, and was placed on unconditional waivers with intent to terminate his contract for violating COVID-19 protocols. The league found insufficient evidence to &#8220;conclusively find that Mr. Kane knowingly made misrepresentations regarding his COVID-19 status or test results in connection with his international travel.&#8221; 
Kane was suspended by San Jose in October for reportedly submitting a fake vaccination card, and has yet to play a game in the 2021-2022 NHL season. 
“I’ve said this before, management’s done a really good job of limiting the distractions from the players and the staff,” Sharks coach Bob Boughner <a href="https://www.nhl.com/news/san-jose-sharks-place-evander-kane-on-waivers/c-328428688">said</a> following the news. “This announcement today is just another example of that. We like what we have in our room, I think we’ve created a pretty good family atmosphere and culture and we’re going to continue to do that.&#8221;
“This sort of now puts this behind us a little bit. Not that it was a big subject in our room to begin with, but it’s nice we’re moving on and we’re focusing on our jobs,” Boughner continued. 
Kane was sent down to the Sharks AHL affiliate, the San Jose Barracuda, on November 29 following Kane’s completion of a 21-game suspension. 
In January, San Jose placed Kane on unconditional waivers with the intent of terminating his contract with the club for violating AHL COVID-19 protocols. 
“The San Jose Sharks have informed Evander Kane that he has been placed on unconditional waivers with intent to terminate his contract for breach of his NHL Standard Player Contract and for violation of the AHL COVID-19 protocol,” San Jose <a href="https://www.nhl.com/sharks/news/statement-from-sharks-regarding-evander-kane/c-329592480">said</a> in a statement. “The Club will have no further comment on this matter.” 
The NHLPA [National Hockey League Players Association] put out a statement on Twitter saying they would be filing a grievance. 
“We are aware of the San Jose Sharks’ stated intent to terminate Evander Kane’s contract,” the NHLPA <a href="https://twitter.com/NHLPA/status/1479940835605106699?s=20">said</a>. “The NHLPA intends to challenge any such action by filing a grievance.”
Kane’s agent, Dan Milstein, also put out a statement.
“We are aware of the Sharks’ decision to put Evander on waivers for contract termination,” Milstein <a href="https://twitter.com/HockeyAgent1/status/1479943062390456324?s=20&amp;t=3scMAaYVuR2VM-SAX-gk8Q">said</a> on Twitter. “If he clears, we will file a grievance. The Sharks do not have sufficient grounds for taking this action.”
While the NHL has not mandated the vaccine for its players, it is heavily encouraged, and the protocols for the unvaccinated are much stricter than for those who have received the vaccine. 
The NHL allows teams to suspend unvaccinated players who are “unable to participate in club activities” due to testing positive for COVID-19. Unvaccinated players are only allowed at the team hotel, practice facility, and arena and are not allowed to patronize bars and restaurants. 
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The Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2, which causes COVID-19, has spawned yet another strain.
&#8220;Just as the omicron surge starts to recede in parts of the U.S., scientists have their eye on another coronavirus variant spreading rapidly in parts of Asia and Europe. It&#8217;s officially called &#8216;omicron BA.2,&#8217; and this week scientists detected cases of it in several U.S. states, including California, Texas and Washington,&#8221; NPR <a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2022/01/27/1076123109/new-covid-variant-omicron-ba-2">reported</a>.
&#8220;Although BA.2 is currently rare in the U.S., scientists expect it to spread in the country over the next month. There&#8217;s growing evidence that it&#8217;s just as contagious as — or possibly a bit more contagious than — the first omicron variant, called &#8216;omicron BA.1.'&#8221;
&#8220;It could be that BA.2 does have some small advantage,&#8221; Emma Hodcroft, an epidemiologist at the University of Bern told NPR. &#8220;BA.2 might well be, like, 1% to 3% more transmissible, or something like that.&#8221;
While some scientists are concerned about the new strain, some experts are now saying the original variant of Omicron could change everything.
&#8220;World health officials are offering hope that the ebbing of the omicron wave could give way to a new, more manageable phase of the COVID-19 pandemic, even as they warn of difficult weeks ahead and the possibility of another, more dangerous variant arising,&#8221; Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/world/omicron-global-immunity-manageable-covid">reported</a>.
The news network cited Dr. Christopher Murray of the University of Washington, who developed the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation model, which projects that &#8220;nearly all nations will be past the omicron wave by mid-March. &#8230; The wave will leave behind high levels of immunity — both from infection and vaccination — that could lead to low levels of transmission for many weeks or months.&#8221;
What happens then? &#8220;We end up with the highest levels of global immunity that we’ve seen in the pandemic,&#8221; Murray said. His model estimated that 57% of the global population has already been infected with the virus at least once.
But we&#8217;re not through this thing yet.
&#8220;Even if we project a more optimistic future, right now we still have a lot of COVID spreading, a lot of strain in our hospital systems, and our deaths have not yet peaked,&#8221; Lauren Ancel Meyers, director of the University of Texas COVID-19 Modeling Consortium, told Fox. &#8220;There’s still a lot of pain before omicron has run its course,&#8221; Meyers said, but added: &#8220;It&#8217;s very plausible that Omicron will be a turning point in terms of our relationship with this virus.&#8221;
The World Health Organization (WHO) is more pessimistic. The worldwide scourge of COVID-19 last week entered its third year in the U.S., which means David Nabarro, the WHO&#8217;s special envoy for COVID-19, is predicting it won&#8217;t be until 2024 that we see an end.
&#8220;What people are seeing from around the world and reporting to the WHO is this is still a very, very dangerous virus, especially for people who have not been vaccinated and who&#8217;ve not been exposed to it before,&#8221; Nabarro told Sky News, <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10434707/WHO-warns-against-comparing-Covid-flu-nasty-surprises.html">according</a> to The Daily Mail. &#8220;The end is in sight, but how long is it going to take to get there? What sort of difficulties will we face on the way? Those are the questions that none of us can answer because this virus continues to give us challenges and surprises.&#8221;
&#8220;It&#8217;s as though we&#8217;re just passing the halfway mark in a marathon and we can see that yes, there is an end and fast runners are getting through ahead of us. But we&#8217;ve still got a long, long way to trudge and it&#8217;s going to be tough,&#8221; he said.
Joseph Curl has covered politics for 35 years, including 12 years as White House correspondent, and ran the Drudge Report from 2010 to 2015. Send tips to josephcurl@dailywire.com.
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Dr. Anthony Fauci is still pretty sure COVID-19 did not come from a lab.
“Well, we always have to keep an open mind on this,” Fauci <a href="https://www.siriusxm.com/clips/clip/e7adfb79-ca09-4825-b8ca-1aa0c124dea0/fe499f21-e8aa-4de4-b4d8-f68625e878fd">told</a> Dr. Marc Siegel on SiriusXM’s Doctor Radio on Tuesday. “But if you talk to the real card-carrying molecular virologists — they feel that the evidence and the circumstances weigh very very strongly that this is a natural occurrence.”
“In the sense jumping from an animal species, a bat, maybe to a intermediate host, to a human,” the White House&#8217;s chief medical advisor said. “Very similar to what was proven to be the case with SARS-CoV-1 as well as with MERS. With the bat to the camel to the human.”
Fauci added that while it is still possible the virus could have escaped from a lab, the experts on the subject say the pathogen simply occurred naturally and jumped from an animal to a human.
“You always have to keep an open mind that it could have been something that had been put into a lab to be studied and perhaps leaked out. But most, if not all, of the real card-carrying virologists feel that it was a naturally occurring, out of the environment from an animal to a human.”
The idea that the virus could have escaped from a lab was largely dismissed in 2020 as a conspiracy as the pandemic tightened its grip on the U.S., but the theory was revived last year after a U.S. intelligence report <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/intelligence-on-sick-staff-at-wuhan-lab-fuels-debate-on-covid-19-origin-11621796228?mod=hp_lead_pos3">found</a> that several researchers at China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology were hospitalized in November 2019 with symptoms that resembled COVID-19 symptoms. China previously told the World Health Organization that the first person with symptoms similar to COVID appeared in Wuhan the next month on December 8, 2019.
China is <a href="https://www.ghsindex.org/country/china/">ranked</a> substantially less prepared than the U.S. on biosecurity by the Global Health Security Index.
Some Republican lawmakers <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/04/24/republican-coronavirus-china-xi/">accused</a> China early on of covering up the origins of the virus, some demanding that China pay financially for unleashing the virus on the rest of the world.
Fauci has headed the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases since 1984 and currently serves as White House chief medical adviser to President Biden on COVID-19. Previously, he advised President Trump on the pandemic and has also served as an advisor to five other former presidents on infectious diseases, including HIV and AIDS.
Over the course of the pandemic, Fauci has been criticized for his inconsistency on various pandemic measures including face masks, which he initially discouraged the public from wearing but later encouraged.
On Wednesday, Fauci announced that children younger than 4 years old will likely have a three-dose COVID-19 vaccine regimen when the Food and Drug Administration approves the vaccine for kids that young.
“It looks like it will be a three-dose regimen. I don’t think we can predict when we will see it,&#8221; Fauci said at a White House press conference.
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Philosopher Robert Bellah once posited that modern Western human beings identify themselves in a peculiar way: as emotional cores, surrounded by baser material. According to Bellah, we are expressive individualists — meaning that &#8220;each person has a unique core of feeling and intuition that should unfold or be expressed if individuality is to be realized.&#8221; This mode of self-definition wars with older, more traditional modes, which suggest that our identities lie in how we interact with the world and society around us. Expressive individualism, by contrast, suggests that we are not truly ourselves unless the world confirms all of our feelings and intuitions. As professor Carl Trueman points out, this viewpoint is essentially solipsistic; he explains, &#8220;When identity is psychologized, and the pursuit of happiness becomes a subjective, psychological matter, anything that challenges that paradigm is deemed damaging and oppressive.&#8221;
We see this phenomenon most obviously in the bizarre insistence by transgender advocates that not only are they men trapped in women&#8217;s bodies or vice versa, but that society mirror that incorrect self-perception. But expressive individualism also manifests in other contexts, such as belief in racial essentialism, denial of parental rights, and objection to science itself.
It even crops up in reference to COVID-19.
COVID-19 should be a paradigmatic example of where expressive individualism fails: It is an exogenous shock to the individual, a reality that exists no matter the subjective thoughts or feelings. The data map out individuals&#8217; risk factors; particular actions, like vaccination, can lower the risk of hospitalization or death for most people, no matter the intuitions of individuals who object. All of which mean that we should be able to track that data, and to change our response to the pandemic based on new data.
And yet we have now, as a society, psychologized even COVID-19 in expressive individualist terms. Thus, after Bari Weiss pointed out on Bill Maher&#8217;s show that the public health establishment has failed time and again to follow the data, that the vast majority of those who have been vaccinated are safe from COVID-19, and that we ought to consider life returning to normal, a massive backlash ensued — backlash from those least vulnerable to COVID-19, who have now internalized a sense of COVID-19 moral superiority. Thus, Sara Haines of &#8220;The View&#8221; lamented, &#8220;I think some of the things we&#8217;ve learned in this pandemic will stay the same. I may never ride the subway without a mask, I may never go indoors to big crowds and feel comfortable without a mask.&#8221; Michelle Goldberg of The New York Times explained, &#8220;What you can&#8217;t do is force other people, whose vulnerabilities might be much greater than your own, to agree with your risk assessments and join you in moving on while the pandemic still rages.&#8221;
But that&#8217;s precisely what Goldberg and Haines are doing — forcing other people to take measures that the science does not support in order to maintain their emotional comfort. Boosters are not stopping omicron. Nothing short of N95 masks is stopping omicron. The disease is now endemic, which is why Dr. Hans Kluge of the World Health Organization&#8217;s European region stated this week, &#8220;Omicron offers plausible hope for stabilization and normalization.&#8221;
But there will be no normalization for those who have made pandemic paranoia a feature of their identity. That&#8217;s because the public health establishment has now successfully cultivated a large group of people who measure their moral value by just how compliant and panicked they remain over COVID-19: Fully 68% of people fully vaccinated with boosters remain very or somewhat worried about getting sick from COVID-19 in the next year, compared with just 39% of those who are unvaccinated. This is the precise opposite of what the public health authorities should have achieved — but expressive individualism has won the day once again, conflating one&#8217;s feelings with one&#8217;s identity group.
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk, podcast host Joe Rogan, and psychology professor Jordan Peterson were among those who recently endorsed the “Freedom Convoy” — a group of Canadian truckers organizing against the nation’s COVID-19 vaccine mandates. 
For the Canadian trucking industry, the policy <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/canadian-truckers-lead-freedom-convoy-to-ottawa-in-protest-of-vaccine-mandate">forces</a> unvaccinated drivers to observe a two-week quarantine and COVID-19 test before crossing into Canada from the United States.
As news of the protest made international headlines, Musk expressed approval in a three-word tweet: “Canadian truckers rule.”
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Meanwhile, Rogan <a href="https://twitter.com/TPostMillennial/status/1486538010460053512">highlighted</a> the convoy and noted that Canada is “in revolt.”
Peterson — a Canadian — has repeatedly discussed the protest on his Twitter page. In one post, he categorized The Toronto Star’s assertion that the truckers are “flirting with extremists” as laughable.
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&quot;flirting with extremists&quot;. Extremists. In Canada. &quot;Extremist Canadians.&quot; It is to laugh. <a href="https://t.co/gG8zw8pZLp">https://t.co/gG8zw8pZLp</a> <a href="https://t.co/IMOhSBaKzw">https://t.co/IMOhSBaKzw</a>
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In another post, he tagged Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to refute his <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/canadians-furious-after-trudeaus-fringe-minority-comment-as-thousands-of-truckers-head-to-capital">remarks</a> that only a few “extremist” Canadians with “unacceptable” views were participating in the convoy.
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A few &quot;extremist&quot; Canadians with &quot;unacceptable &quot; views <a href="https://twitter.com/JustinTrudeau?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JustinTrudeau</a> <a href="https://t.co/UBPUJDXYbv">https://t.co/UBPUJDXYbv</a>
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During an interview with Fox News anchor Laura Ingraham, former NHL player and two-time Olympic gold medalist Theo Fleury also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/canadians-furious-after-trudeaus-fringe-minority-comment-as-thousands-of-truckers-head-to-capital">addressed</a> Trudeau’s response. “Right now in Canada, we have one of the biggest revolutions happening,” he commented. “There’s 50,000 truckers and about 1.4 million people headed to the parliament in Ottawa. And they’re going to stay there until Trudeau resigns.”
The Freedom Convoy has raised more than $4.5 million from 60,000 supporters on GoFundMe. As organizer Tamara Lich <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/truckers-against-vax-mandate-raise-millions-gofundme-withholds-funds">wrote</a> on the group’s page: “We are a peaceful country that has helped protect nations across the globe from tyrannical governments who oppressed their people, and now it seems it is happening here. We are taking our fight to the doorsteps of our Federal Government and demanding that they cease all mandates against its people.”
However, the donation platform later blocked access to the funds.
“We require that fundraisers be transparent about the flow of funds and have a clear plan for how those funds will be spent,” GoFundMe spokeswoman Rachel Hollis said in an email, according to <a href="https://www.thestar.com/business/2022/01/25/trucker-convoys-4-million-in-fundraising-frozen-by-gofundme.html">The Toronto Star</a>. “In this case, we are in touch with the organizer to verify that information.”
In the United States, however, a lawsuit filed by The Daily Wire played an integral role in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/we-said-do-not-comply-we-won">overturning</a> President Biden’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for private employers.
“It’s a tremendous day for the American people and for the founding idea that this is a limited government of enumerated powers, which exists to protect, not erode, the God-given freedoms of the people,” Daily Wire Co-CEO Jeremy Boreing wrote after the Supreme Court overturned the statute. 
“Total victory, not just for the millions of Americans who have exercised their right not to be vaccinated, but the millions more who oppose the tyranny of this mandate regardless of their vaccine status,” he continued. “And utter defeat for the government, which sought to enforce its will on the American people — literally INTO the American people — at threat of financial ruin just because they’re convinced they know better than you.”
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NBA Hall of Famer John Stockton revealed over the weekend that Gonzaga University suspended his season tickets for defying its mask mandates at home games. 
In an interview with <a href="https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2022/jan/23/john-stocktons-refusal-to-comply-with-mask-mandate/">The Spokesman-Review</a>, Stockton said that the university received several complaints regarding his unwillingness to wear a mask at Gonzaga basketball games. 
“Basically, it came down to, they were asking me to wear a mask to the games and being a public figure, someone a little bit more visible, I stuck out in the crowd a little bit,” Stockton said. “And therefore they received complaints and felt like from whatever the higher-ups – those weren’t discussed, but from whatever it was higher up – they were going to have to either ask me to wear a mask or they were going to suspend my tickets.”
But it was Stockton’s comments on the COVID-19 vaccine in the June documentary “COVID and the Vaccine: Truth, Lies and Misconceptions Revealed,” that caused outrage. 
In the documentary, Stockton made the unfounded claim that more than 100 professional athletes have died from the COVID-19 vaccine. 
“I think it’s highly recorded now, there’s 150 I believe now, it’s over 100 professional athletes dead – professional athletes – the prime of their life, dropping dead that are vaccinated, right on the pitch, right on the field, right on the court,” Stockton <a href="https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2022/jan/23/john-stocktons-refusal-to-comply-with-mask-mandate/">said</a> in the interview.
The claim was too much for CNN and the NBA’s all-time leading scorer Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. 
&#8220;I think statements like that [Stockton&#8217;s] make the public look upon athletes as basically dumb jocks for trying to explain away something this is obviously a pandemic, and the best way to fight pandemics is through vaccination and testing,&#8221; Abdul-Jabbar said during a CNN appearance. &#8220;Those are the means by which we identify the problem and do our best to mitigate it.&#8221;
&#8220;I don&#8217;t understand anyone saying anything else that makes sense. It doesn&#8217;t make sense what he&#8217;s saying,&#8221; Abdul-Jabbar continued. &#8220;This is a preventative measure that has been useful in many different circumstances.&#8221;
Abdul-Jabbar went on to implore Stockton to “check the facts out.”
“I think John’s reaction to the vaccine is extreme and not based on reality or facts,&#8221; Abdul-Jabbar added. &#8220;And if John could just check the facts out, he would understand that this vaccine is saving lives and preventing people from having serious reactions from the virus. It won’t eliminate the virus overnight, but it will stop people from dying and it will stop people from becoming seriously ill.” 
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Abdul-Jabbar has been an advocate for the vaccine since it became available, even receiving his shot on video. He told Rolling Stone in a September article that NBA players refusing the jab are contributing to deaths from COVID-19.
“They are failing to live up to the responsibilities that come with celebrity. Athletes are under no obligation to be spokespersons for the government, but this is a matter of public health,” the Hall of Famer <a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/nba-anti-vaxxers-covid-1231988/">told</a> Rolling Stone in an email. Abdul-Jabbar is especially disappointed in athletes of color: “By not encouraging their people to get the vaccine, they’re contributing to these deaths. I’m also concerned about how this perpetuates the stereotype of dumb jocks who are unable to look at verified scientific evidence and reach a rational conclusion.”
Stockton told the Spokesman-Review that he hopes to retain a relationship with the university, despite the suspension of his season tickets. 
“There’s probably a lot of different directions this can go, and I think time will tell on all of that,” he <a href="https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2022/jan/23/john-stocktons-refusal-to-comply-with-mask-mandate/">said</a>. “My focus is to maintain that relationship, as is theirs. They’ve made it very clear that we’re important to each other and I don’t think that’s going to change. However, there are some absolute impasses that we’re going to figure out.”
“I’ve been around here a long time, so I don’t expect things to linger, whatever they may be,” he added.
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Denmark Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has announced that the European nation will end nearly all of its pandemic restrictions on February 1, despite other European countries extending restrictions.
“We say goodbye to the restrictions and welcome the life we knew before” the pandemic, Frederiksen said, <a href="https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-health-business-sweden-public-health-8650596378aa96b985665d3cf8a979b3" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to</a> the Associated Press. “As of Feb. 1, Denmark will be open.”
The prime minister also addressed the contrast between infection rates and the decision to return to pre-pandemic practices.
&#8220;It may seem strange that we want to remove restrictions given the high infection rates,&#8221; Frederiksen said. &#8220;But fewer people become seriously ill.&#8221;
Denmark has maintained strict requirements for mask-wearing on public transportation and in most indoor venues. Beginning next week, masks will only be required in hospitals, healthcare facilities, and homes for the elderly.
&#8220;According to Health Minister Magnus Heunicke, Denmark&#8217;s recent cases of COVID were more than 46,000 daily on average; however, only 40 people are in hospital intensive care units,&#8221; Newsweek <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/denmark-end-most-covid-restrictions-welcome-life-we-knew-before-1673373" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
Despite being among one of the first countries to shut down in early 2020, Denmark now stands apart as one of the first European nations to roll back restrictions.
Last week, the U.K. announced it was ending most of its pandemic restrictions as well. The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/england-to-scrap-most-covid-restrictions-boris-johnson-announces" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>:
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Mandatory mask-wearing on public transportation and in stores, guidelines on working from home, as well as vaccine certifications will be ended next week. Johnson said that the rule making individuals prove recent recovery from a coronavirus infection or display a vaccine certificate to attend certain large events will stop, as well. 
The Guardian <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/19/boris-johnson-announces-end-to-all-omicron-covid-restrictions-in-england">reported</a>, “The prime minister also told the Commons that the legal requirement on people with coronavirus to self-isolate would be allowed to lapse when the regulations expired on 24 March, and that date could be brought forward.”
Johnson also stated that students will no longer be required to wear masks at secondary schools. 
“From tomorrow we will no longer require face masks in classrooms and the Department for Education will shortly remove national guidance on their use in communal areas,” Johnson told the Commons.
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The two nations stand in strong contrast with other European nations that have extended COVID-19 restrictions.
In Austria, a new fine for the unvaccinated is set to begin.
&#8220;Austria’s lower house of parliament on Thursday approved a coronavirus vaccine mandate for all adults starting Feb. 1, with violators facing as much as $4,000 in fines,&#8221; The Washington Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/01/21/global-fines-unvaccinated/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> last week.
Italy moved forward with a super vaccine pass starting January 10 that <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/italy-targets-unvaccinated-virus-restrictions-82177980" target="_blank" rel="noopener">requires</a> &#8220;proof of vaccination or recovery from a recent infection required to enter public transport, cafes, hotels, gyms and other popular venues.&#8221;
In November, Greece announced the first age-specific European mandate that requires citizens 60 years old and above to be vaccinated. Failure to do so includes a fine.
&#8220;Authorities said those who failed to comply from Jan. 16 would face a recurring monthly fine of 100 euros,&#8221; <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/greece-make-vaccinations-persons-over-60-mandatory-pm-2021-11-30/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to</a> Reuters.
Greece also &#8220;barred unvaccinated people from indoor spaces including restaurants, cinemas, museums and gyms as daily COVID-19 cases hit record highs,&#8221; in November, according to the report.
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Denmark Ending Nearly All Pandemic Restrictions: ‘Welcome The Life We Knew Before’

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Actress Goldie Hawn <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2022/01/26/covid-inflicts-childhood-trauma-goldie-hawn/9204091002/">said</a> in a op-ed published this week that COVID-19 policies and general effects from the pandemic have created great trauma in our children, whom we&#8217;ve &#8220;failed.&#8221;
&#8220;Today, we are in the midst of a national trauma that could very well surpass 9/11 and approach the heightened terror of the Cold War years,&#8221; Hawn wrote at USA Today. &#8220;The COVID era has changed our children’s lives in far more real, tangible ways – social distancing, school closures, daily mask use.&#8221;
&#8220;Kids are afraid of people, spaces, even the air around them – a level of constant fear not seen in decades,&#8221; the actress emphasized. &#8220;In early 2021, emergency room visits in the United States for <a class="gnt_ar_b_a x5l" href="https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/pdfs/mm7024e1-H.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener external">suspected suicide attempts were 51% higher for adolescent girls and 4% higher for adolescent boys</a>, compared with the same time period in early 2019.&#8221;
&#8220;This tells us that as a nation, we have failed our children,&#8221; Hawn asserted.
The actress also touched on the role of social and traditional media striking fear into our children, recalling the fear she felt during the 1960s as her class engaged in Cold War-related drills.
&#8220;Helping children understand the chemical reactions that occur in their mind when they scroll through TikTok or listen to the latest horrifying statistic or headline on the evening news gives them the patience and confidence to put things in perspective, rather than fall victim to the emotions of the moment and end up in a helplessness that leads to depression and sometimes self-harm, the kind we are seeing in record numbers among children,&#8221; she wrote.
“A child’s mind exposed to real-world fear, without the ability to properly process it, can go down dark passages leading to nothing less than existential dread,” the &#8220;Overboard&#8221; actress added.
“We need more research, more preventative care and more early intervention,&#8221; Hawn proposed. &#8220;And there’s still time.”
Earlier this month, the Oscar-winning actress discussed the heavy political activism of Hollywood, stating that she likes to “stay in her lane” when it comes to politics and believes entertainers should strive to “serve” and perform “for all people.” <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/goldie-hawn-talks-staying-out-of-politics-i-stay-in-my-lane-we-should-entertain-for-all-people">The Daily Wire</a> reported:
<blockquote>SiriusXM host Megyn Kelly broached the subject with Hawn during her Friday show. “I think it’s why it drives people crazy when Hollywood tries to act holier than thou and starts lecturing middle America about morality and so on,” Kelly said. “And you know, these people sitting in Iowa who have never done any, they’ve never tried to put someone on a casting couch … They’re like, you could save your lectures for somebody else.”
“That’s right, exactly,” Hawn agreed. “And the idea that … I do have a feeling about keeping — Okay, how do I say this?”
“A lot of Hollywood has a lot of missions, right?” the actress said. “And you know, you want to put your name onto something that you believe in, but it doesn’t make a difference. And that’s the reality.”
“I stay in my lane,” Hawn continued. “The reality is, is that if we want to do anything, we want to do it for all people, not just for a group or whatever.”
“What makes polarity even more is creating teams on either side of the aisle,” she emphasized. “And I don’t think that’s what we do. I think we entertain. I think we bring awareness to people, just of their ability to laugh, to have joy, to experience it, to cry. We are emotional beings and create emotion in others. And it’s in this case, I think we’re in service.”</blockquote>
<a href="https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2022/01/26/goldie-hawn-pandemic-trauma-hurting-children-weve-failed-them/">H/t</a> Breitbart 
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‘We Have Failed Our Children’: Goldie Hawn Talks COVID Policies, Pandemic Trauma

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Fox News host Greg Gutfeld said Wednesday that Dr. Anthony Fauci might want to consider a career change after a recent document dump revealed just how much he appears to have known — and may have worked to cover up — about the origins of the coronavirus pandemic.
<a href="https://dailywire.com/news/understand-what-we-have-lost-greg-gutfeld-and-geraldo-rivera-duke-it-out-over-covid-policies/">Gutfeld</a> and his co-hosts on &#8220;The Five&#8221; addressed the issue after watching a clip of Fox News anchor <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/bret-baier-challenges-cdc-director-to-call-out-justice-sotomayor-on-covid-misinformation/">Bret Baier</a> reporting on the timeline of events and the information revealed in the documents.
&#8220;The documents also show Fauci and scientists around the world worked to suppress the lab leak theory over fears it would upset science and international harmony,&#8221; Dana Perino noted as the clip ended. &#8220;That was a part that really bothered me. Why not just be transparent?&#8221;
&#8220;The biggest problem here is that the experts that are scolding us on masks, mandates, and risk assessment are the ones who risked billions of lives on this questionable science that led to millions of deaths,&#8221; Gutfeld replied. &#8220;Fauci should probably resign and get a lawyer. No wonder that Dr. Fauci was quivering whenever anybody brought up China because the paper trail doesn’t just involve Chinese scientist, it involves American scientists too.&#8221;
&#8220;Think about the class-action litigation on this, when you&#8217;re talking about 12 million people dead,&#8221; <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/we-pay-them-to-lose-greg-gutfeld-unloads-on-teachers-unions-amid-omicron-driven-remote-learning-push/">Gutfeld</a> continued. &#8220;You could bankrupt a country. That’s trillions in settlements if you want to do it. So, somebody has to go to jail; if you’re arresting non-vaxxed people at Applebee’s, somebody should be paying the price for this, which is now becoming a holocaust, right?&#8221;
Co-host Geraldo Rivera groaned at the mention of the holocaust, but Gutfeld clarified, &#8220;It&#8217;s over six million dead, I&#8217;m talking about numbers.&#8221;
Gutfeld went on to say that the &#8220;experts&#8221; had hidden the most obvious possibility — the lab leak theory — because they &#8220;didn&#8217;t want to piss off China, lose funding, or go to prison.&#8221;
Gutfeld was careful to point out that the possible leak was not deliberate, but that the actions of those who had supported questionable research had still put the entire world at risk.
&#8220;They killed millions of people, and we&#8217;re not even trying to investigate,&#8221; he said.
&#8220;It is not the underlying crime that is so easy to identify, it is the cover-up,&#8221; Judge Jeanine Pirro agreed, adding, &#8220;And now we have the cover-up where we have all of these doctors smeared from Oxford, and Harvard, and Stanford — they were all smeared by Dr. Fauci and his gang.”
Pirro said that where <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/hes-a-menace-rand-paul-says-hes-proud-to-raise-money-in-efforts-to-fire-fauci/">Fauci</a>, Dr. Francis Collins, and others had gone wrong was in reportedly shutting down the scientists who had disagreed with them. &#8220;The bottom line on this thing is that science should be about debate, it should be about criticism, it should be receptive to skepticism. That’s what science is all about. So, you get together with people and you test different theories. These guys are dictators; they got together and said, you know what? Whether we are responsible or not, we are going to cover it up and, you know, the hell with science,&#8221; she said.
Rivera jumped in then, saying that he had always liked Fauci because he was &#8220;not a politician&#8221; — prompting laughter and groans from everyone else at the table.
&#8220;It’s called the Wuhan virus for a reason,&#8221; Rivera continued, noting that everyone knew it had begun in Wuhan within a mile of the laboratory in question. &#8220;It does not take a rocket [scientist] — or a virology scientist to tell us that it’s probably from the lab.&#8221;
Rivera went on to say that if China was culpable, that information would come out – although he conceded that the Chinese government had probably already scrubbed the wet market they had initially blamed for the outbreak and even possibly killed the interns who worked at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
&#8220;I don’t believe that this is such a big, momentous revelation,&#8221; Rivera continued. &#8220;What’s the crime, Greg?&#8221;
Everyone started talking at once then, noting that people were being arrested for going to work or not wearing masks, and saying that millions of people had died because no one wanted to admit to being party to the risky gain-of-function research that may have led to the creation of the novel coronavirus in the first place.
&#8220;All he had to say was, when we all knew that it was gain-of-function that escaped, &#8216;Sorry, this is on us.’ And then you fall on your sword and you resign,&#8221; co-host Jesse Watters concluded.
WATCH Bret Baier&#8217;s report here:
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New internal NIH documents: scientists believed in a lab leak/manipulated virus but then suddenly changed their views and then awarded millions in NIH funding. Everyone should watch this incredible report by the best journalist in the business <a href="https://twitter.com/BretBaier?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BretBaier</a> <a href="https://t.co/uGHw4Jt6jZ">https://t.co/uGHw4Jt6jZ</a>
— Marty Makary MD, MPH (@MartyMakary) <a href="https://twitter.com/MartyMakary/status/1486192014932783113?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 26, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Greg Gutfeld Offers Advice To Fauci After Lab Leak Document Dump: ‘Resign And Get A Lawyer’

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White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki took issue with a question posed Wednesday by Fox News White House Correspondent Peter Doocy, asking whether he had meant to insinuate President Joe Biden had lied about conversations with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
Amid a series of questions about the reportedly-imminent retirement announcement from Supreme Court Justice <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/highly-unusual-new-development-on-supreme-court-justice-stephen-breyers-retirement-raises-questions/">Stephen Breyer</a> and possible sanctions against <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/but-youre-not-imposing-sanctions-dana-bash-corners-blinken-asks-why-biden-is-giving-russia-room-to-move/">Russia</a>, Doocy asked several questions about the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic — namely whether the Biden administration was also considering sanctions if the Chinese Communist Party leadership did not cooperate with investigators.
&#8220;On COVID origins, you guys are talking a lot about sanctions for Russia if they dare to invade Ukraine. What about sanctions for China?&#8221; <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/peter-doocy-challenges-psaki-on-crime-does-biden-know-the-american-people-do-not-feel-safe/">Doocy</a> asked, noting that most believed the Chinese were at least guilty of &#8220;misleading the world about the early days of the global pandemic?&#8221;
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Doocy: &#8220;On COVID origins, you guys are talking a lot about sanctions for Russia if they dare to invade Ukraine. What about sanctions for China&#8230;for misleading the world about the early days of the global pandemic?&#8221;
Psaki punts, saying there&#8217;s &#8220;nothing to preview.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/n8uLG61xIv">pic.twitter.com/n8uLG61xIv</a>
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) <a href="https://twitter.com/CurtisHouck/status/1486434086684143623?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 26, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Psaki noted that sanctions were often used as a tool to address concerns about the behaviors of other nations, but did not give a direct response as to whether they might be considered with regard to China.
Doocy followed up, asking if perhaps &#8220;some other form of punishment for their actions in the early stages of the pandemic&#8221; would be a consideration — to which Psaki replied that the Biden administration was committed to ensuring that the Chinese government was &#8220;transparent&#8221; in its dealings with the United States.
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Doocy: &#8220;Is it possible down the line&#8230;that sanctions would be considered some other form of punishment for their actions in the early stages of the pandemic?&#8221;
Psaki: &#8220;You know we strongly believe in&#8230;the importance of [the Chinese] being transparent[.]&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/a3iOQjCKlv">pic.twitter.com/a3iOQjCKlv</a>
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) <a href="https://twitter.com/CurtisHouck/status/1486434524758224897?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 26, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Doocy then asked about Biden&#8217;s relationship with President Xi, saying that Biden had &#8220;changed his story&#8221; when it came to conversations the two may or may not have had. Doocy noted that Biden had said months ago that he &#8220;had not spoken directly to Xi about the COVID origins investigation,&#8221; but then later said that he had — although no one else had been there.
&#8220;If [he] had that conversation, did it work, and is Xi now playing ball?&#8221; Doocy pressed.
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Doocy: Biden &#8220;said for months&#8230;he had not spoken directly to Xi about the COVID origins investigation. Now, he says he did talk to Xi&#8230;but nobody else was there. If [he] had that conversation, did it work, and is Xi now playing ball?&#8221;
Psaki: &#8220;What are you getting at[?]&#8221; (6/6) <a href="https://t.co/A1C7UcoR8g">pic.twitter.com/A1C7UcoR8g</a>
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) <a href="https://twitter.com/CurtisHouck/status/1486437343296950280?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 26, 2022</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;What are you getting at?&#8221; Psaki asked. &#8220;Are you suggesting the president wasn’t being honest about his own conversation with Xi?&#8221;
Doocy pressed again, noting that the story had changed over time.
&#8220;We don’t share every detail of every diplomatic conversation. You know that the president answered a direct question just a week ago, or I think it was a week ago, yes, and provided that information,&#8221; Psaki pushed right back, to which Doocy said simply: &#8220;Ok.&#8221;
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‘Are You Suggesting The President Wasn’t Being Honest?’: Psaki Plays Defense To Doocy Question On China And COVID

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Daily Mail columnist Meghan McCain launched a lengthy <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10443695/MEGHAN-MCCAIN-got-Covid-doubt-America-recover-not-Biden.html?ito=social-twitter_dailymailus">tirade</a> against &#8220;moronic&#8221; President Joe Biden, saying that her personal experience with COVID-19 had convinced her that America would never recover as long as he remained in charge.
&#8220;It was easy for the media to — rightfully — blame Trump for the bungling of the early Covid-19 response, but Biden and his feckless, moronic, isolated Titanic of an administration gets the blame now,&#8221; <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/the-show-isnt-woke-meghan-mccain-explains-yellowstone-becoming-a-smash-success/">McCain</a> wrote, arguing that three years into a pandemic, better testing and treatment options should have been available — especially in the United States.
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— Meghan McCain (@MeghanMcCain) <a href="https://twitter.com/MeghanMcCain/status/1486332813209186310?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 26, 2022</a></blockquote>
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McCain said that her husband, The Federalist&#8217;s Ben Domenech, was first to fall ill — and because at-home rapid tests were all but impossible to find, his best option was to stand outside in the cold, waiting in line to be tested at a clinic. His test, despite the fact that he was fully vaccinated, was positive. And hers — a rapid test delivered by a family member — was also positive despite vaccination.
&#8220;We live fifteen minutes away from the White House, in the United States of America. Why is it so hard to get an at-home Covid test?&#8221; McCain asked, adding, &#8220;In isolation, I started ruminating as to whether the last days of American greatness were finally upon us, like so many pundits have been circulating over the past few years.&#8221;
&#8220;For a pandemic that is in its third year, shouldn&#8217;t we have more readily available treatment and testing? For as much information as I know and as much as I have been exposed to, there was not much more than sleeping, Gatorade, Tylenol and a neti pot to treat Covid-19,&#8221; she continued.
McCain pointed back to Biden&#8217;s oft-repeated <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/advisers-plea-with-biden-to-change-his-coronavirus-strategy-as-he-fails-to-shut-down-the-virus-report/">campaign promise</a> — that he would &#8220;shut down the virus,&#8221; but he would never shut down the country.
&#8220;I didn&#8217;t vote for the man (or Trump) but I had higher hopes for a better preparedness for the country and the fight to at least mitigate Covid more than a year into the Biden administration,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;Inflation is rising, it feels like we will have Covid omnipresent for the rest of my lifetime and we are more divided than at any time in history since the Civil War.&#8221;
McCain went on to address the idea of post-COVID depression — something she said that she has experienced in the weeks since testing positive.
&#8220;I am a pretty optimistic person by nature and this has been hard for me to shake both physically and emotionally. I can&#8217;t fathom how people without support, resources and international columns to tell their story feel,&#8221; she wrote. &#8220;No wonder there is a pandemic of depression, suicides and malaise.&#8221;
McCain said that she had hoped Biden would boost morale and that his administration would have worked to make <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/gop-lawmakers-ask-biden-why-trillions-in-covid-stimulus-somehow-havent-paid-for-covid-testing-kits/">treatments and testing</a> available before it was needed, repeating several times the refrain: &#8220;Everything keeps getting worse.&#8221;
&#8220;I still refuse to succumb to the left&#8217;s propaganda that America&#8217;s greatest days are behind her,&#8221; McCain said, calling for a shift away from the tone and leadership of the Biden administration thus far.
&#8220;Maybe this is the best that Biden and his administration thinks America has to offer or deserves, but I assure you there will be others out there who do not feel that way. And they will not let this country continue to be this sick &#8211; physically, emotionally, financially. We are Americans, we can do so much better than this and we owe it to ourselves and the generations ahead of us to do better,&#8221; she concluded. &#8220;Biden may not believe in morning in America, but I sure as hell still do, just not under his failed leadership.&#8221;
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‘Feckless, Moronic, Isolated Titanic Of An Administration’: Meghan McCain Unloads On Biden

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CNN anchor Brianna Keilar declared Fox News guilty of &#8220;the ultimate moral crime&#8221; with regard to COVID-19, arguing that the network had allowed the propagation of misinformation in order to drive ratings.
&#8220;Yes, we are tired of the pandemic. That may be the one sentiment people can actually agree on,&#8221; <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/watch-mary-katharine-ham-mercilessly-mocks-aoc-for-claiming-republicans-just-want-to-date-her/">Keilar</a> began, playing a clip of the now-viral conversation between former New York Times editor Bari Weiss and comedian <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/its-half-the-country-bill-maher-explains-why-he-cant-get-behind-hating-trump-voters/">Bill Maher</a> — during which both expressed frustrations with the continued restrictions and paranoia associated with COVID-19.
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Why is Rupert Murdoch, one of the first to get vaccinated, allowing anti-science BS on the air? It is killing people. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/RollTheTape?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#RollTheTape</a> <a href="https://t.co/aaoly6AwyK">pic.twitter.com/aaoly6AwyK</a>
— Brianna Keilar (@brikeilarcnn) <a href="https://twitter.com/brikeilarcnn/status/1486347243003297794?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 26, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Keilar first responded by saying that while she understood the frustrations that Weiss and Maher were expressing, she wasn&#8217;t sure that they were being directed in the correct way.
&#8220;Sure would be nice if COVID were done with us too. Done with hospitals, done with the doctors and the nurses who are stretched to their breaking points in many cases. We are not, though, done. We’re not back to normal. And that is because so many people are still actively choosing not to be vaccinated,&#8221; Keilar said. &#8220;So I get her outrage. I’m not sure I get the direction of it.&#8221;
Keilar then turned her ire on Fox News, criticizing the network for allowing popular host Tucker Carlson to host &#8220;clowns&#8221; like Alex Berenson, who argued that no one should be getting the <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/stop-it-now-biden-scolds-cable-tv-and-social-media-purveyors-of-lies-on-vaccines/">mRNA vaccines</a> made by Pfizer and Moderna.
&#8220;It is completely clear now that the vaccines don’t really work at all against Omicron. In these highly vaccinated and highly boosted countries, rates of infection are incredibly high. And rates of serious disease and death are also rising. The mRNA COVID vaccines need to be withdrawn from the market now. No one should get them. No one should get boosted, no one should get double boosted. They are a dangerous and ineffective product at this point,&#8221; Berenson said.
Keilar noted that Twitter had already banned Berenson for &#8220;spreading misinformation,&#8221; adding, &#8220;He’s lying about the vaccine and the protection it provides. But Fox, Fox had this mad nonscientist on all pandemic.&#8221;
She went on to share some statistics about the impact of COVID-19 on vaccinated people compared to unvaccinated people, arguing that the vaccine reduced the number of people who had severe disease or died after contracting the virus. She also argued that the highest case rates and hospitalization rates were in red states, run by Republican governors — which she equated with also having a large number of Fox News viewers.
&#8220;The network spent the past 24 hours up in arms over the Biden administration’s decision to restrict the use of two monoclonal antibody treatments, treatments that are proven not to work against the Omicron variant, according to the FDA,&#8221; Keilar added. &#8220;None of that coverage at Fox Entertainment, of course, is aimed at the real and most urgent issue, which is people not getting the protection of the vaccine. Also strange, that anti-vaxxers are just fine getting COVID treatments, amazing miracles of science, once they get COVID and they are staring down the odds — but they don’t want the vaccine, also a miracle of science. And, again, the daily double question is why is Rupert Murdoch, who was one of the first to get vaccinated, allowing this anti-science BS on the air? Because it is killing people. But, you know, ratings, and that is the ultimate moral crime.&#8221;
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Politicon 2017 – Day 1

‘Anti-Science BS’: Brianna Keilar Declares Fox News Guilty Of ‘The Ultimate Moral Crime’ On COVID

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